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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>81121</law_id><section_number>51.1-510</section_number><catch_line>Insurance exempt from process</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>2.2-2817.2</reference><reference>23.1-1025</reference><reference>51.1-124.11</reference><reference>51.1-124.4</reference><reference>51.1-502.1</reference><reference>51.1-502.3</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="51.1">Pensions, Benefits, and Retirement</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Group Insurance Program</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The insurance provided for in this chapter, including any optional insurance, and all proceeds therefrom shall be exempt from <span class="dictionary">levy</span>, <span class="dictionary">garnishment</span>, and other legal process, except (i) as provided in subsection B and (ii) for administrative actions pursuant to Chapter 19 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/63.2-1900/">63.2-1900</a> et seq.) of Title 63.2 or any <span class="dictionary">court</span> process to enforce a child or child and spousal support obligation. However, the insured may make a voluntary, irrevocable assignment of his group life insurance and any individual conversion policy that may be issued upon termination of his group life insurance by executing an assignment on a form prepared by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> of Trustees of the Virginia <span class="dictionary">Retirement System</span>. <a id="paragraph-290778" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/51.1-510/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> From any insurance proceeds payable pursuant to this chapter to a retiree&#x2019;s beneficiaries, the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may deduct any overpayment of retirement allowance paid to such retiree. <a id="paragraph-290779" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/51.1-510/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1960, c. 604, &#xA7; 51-111.67:8; 1980, c. 643, &#xA7; 51-111.67:12.1; 1990, c. 832; 1994, c. 883; 1997, c. 273; 2008, c. 354.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
